There they remained two or three days. After this they parted; and G. Whitehead went forward to Lincoln, a distance of eighty miles, where he staid one night; thence he moved on to Cambridge, which journey, being at least seventy miles in a strait line, he accomplished in less than three days, "Though my feet," says he, "were pretty much galled and blistered even before I came out of Yorkshire, yet they amended while I travelled." He was at Cambridge two or three days, and thence passed on to Wymondham, which could not have been under fifty miles by any reckoning, and to Norwich the next day.

Extract." Our being shut out of our meeting houses for divers years, in and about the cities of London and Westminster, and our meetings kept in the streets in all sorts of weather, winter and summer, was a trial and hardship upon us, even upon old and young, men and women: but that trial was not so great, as to have our estates and livelihoods exposed to ruin by a pack of ravenous informers; although it was no small hardship to our persons, to be kept out of doors, in the streets, in the great, severe, and long frost and snow, in the year 1683, for about three months together; when the river Thames was so frozen up, that horses, coaches and carts could pass to and fro upon it, and a street also be erected, and stand over it. And yet in all that hard season, when we were so long kept out in the streets, in the bitter cold air, I do not remember that I got any harm or injury thereby, to the impairing my health, although I frequently attended those our meetings in the streets; wherein I took great and serious notice of

the merciful providence of Almighty God towards my self and many more of our Friends, who were sharers in the same mercy and preservation in that suffering and exercise: no thanks to our unmerciful adversaries and persecutors, but to our heavenly Father be the glory and praise for ever.

"We had in those days some opportunities, and were permitted to publish the Truth openly in the streets, and also to make public supplication to God; yet more frequently not permitted, but pulled away by force, by the trained bands and officers, and either sent to prison, or turned into the meeting house, and there detained under guard until the meeting was ended in the street. Thus were the ministers and others among us often forcibly interrupted and served, and scarce suffered, many times, to declare two or three sentences, without being haled away. However we saw it our duty, in the fear of the living God, to keep our meetings, and patiently to wait upon Him, where often we enjoyed His presence to our consolation, even in our silent attention upon Him: being not called to strive or contest with our adversaries, or their servants whom they employed, but in faith and patience to bear all, believing that in due time thereby we should obtain victory. It was often then before me, that the Lamb and his faithful followers should have the victory, which was matter of secret comfort to me many times; glory to His name for ever."

EDWARD BURROW'S PREACHING.

"He was a man of undaunted courage, though but

young, the Lord set him above the fear of his enemies, and I have beheld him filled with power by the Spirit of the Lord. For instance, at the Bull and Mouth, when the room, which was very large, hath been filled with people, many of whom have been in uproars, contending one with another, some exclaiming against the Quakers, accusing and charging them with heresy, blasphemy, sedition, and what not; that they were deceivers and deluded the people; that they denied the holy scriptures, and the resurrection; others endeavouring to vindicate them, and speaking of them more favourably-In the midst of all which noise and contention, this servant of the Lord hath stood upon a bench with his bible in his hand, (for he generally carried one about him,) speaking to the people with great authority from the words of John vii. 12. ' And there was much murmuring among the people concerning him (Jesus): for some said, He is a good man: others said, Nay; but he deceiveth the people,'--and so suitably to the present debate amongst them, that the whole multitude were thereby overcome, and became exceeding calm and attentive, and depar ted peaceably and with seeming satisfaction,"

Wm. Crouch's Memoirs.

CHRISTIAN ZEAL.

James Gough, in the narrative of his own life, relates of John Ashton of Kilconimore, (who was an old man when J. G. saw him,) that "he with his wife, when at liberty,* constantly attended the meeting at

⚫ He was imprisoned for tithes soon after his convincement.

Birr twice a week, generally walking on foot thither, being about seven English miles and a very bad road, wading through a river both going and returning. In winter they sometimes had the ice to break in crossing this river; and John said he had wept to see the blood on his wife's legs in coming through it. In those days Truth was precious to its professors who also possessed it, and no difficulties or dangers could prevent them from getting to their religious meetings, to enjoy the renewings of divine love and life with their brethren."

GOSPEL SIMPLICITY.

The last mentioned writer gives a lively illustration of the practical effects of that divine anointing, holy energy, or internal principle of action, by which our Society has been always more or less characterized. It may not be unsuitable to preface its insertion, with a passage from the same journal, as follows. "Truth hath ever led to integrity, punctuality, and upright dealing in our outward affairs, and to limit ourselves to few exigencies, and an humble condition in life, rather than invade or risk the properties of other men. We cannot all get a deal of the treasures of this world, (nor is a deal necessary to our well being,-'a man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth ;') but we may all live on a little, if our minds be kept humble, and the sensual appetites be subjected to the cross of Christ."

"John Goodwin, of Escargogh, in Monmouthshire, lived and maintained his family on a farm of four pounds a year, but at length had purchased and im

proved it, so that at that time he reckoned it worth six pounds a year. The first journey he travelled in the ministry, which was to visit Friends through Wales, he had then got of clear money above forty shillings in all, and he was free to spend it, if there were occasion, in the Lord's service, knowing that he could give him, or enable him to get more. The first time he began to entertain travelling Friends, (most of that meeting being gone to Pennsylvania,) he had but one bed, which he left to them, he and his wife taking up their lodging in the stable."

Our predecessors in religious profession were remarkably noted for their hospitality and disinterestedness, and in them it seemed evidently to arise from a rooted sense of religious duty, and the powerful constrainings of Christian love.

THOMAS CHALKLEY ON THE USE OF THE SWORD.

"When I was in Barbadoes, P. M. who accompanied me from Bridgetown to Counsellor Week's, told me, that when I was in the island before, he and I had some discourse concerning the use of the sword, he then (not being of our Society,) wore a sword, but now had left it off, and his business also, which was worth some hundreds a year. I had reminded him of Christ's words, that those who take the sword, should perish with the sword, Matt. xxvi. 52. and, Resist not evil; and if any man smite thee on one cheek, turn the other also: Love enemies, do good to them that hate you, pray for them that despitefully use you, and persecute you. Matt. v. After I had used these argu